HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Soil Erosion The top fertile soil of the farmland is removed due to the excessive water supply. This leads to the loss of nutrient-rich soil that hampered productivity. It also causes global warming because the silt of water bodies induces the release of soil carbon from the particulate organic material.

Detailed explanation-2: -Agriculture contributes to a number larger of environmental issues that cause environmental degradation including: climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, dead zones, genetic engineering, irrigation problems, pollutants, soil degradation, and waste.

Detailed explanation-3: -The use of fertilizers and other chemicals in modern farming leads to an annual loss of soil quality. Approximately half of the nitrate in the fertilizers utilized on crops gets washed into water bodies resulting in water pollution.

Detailed explanation-4: -2.1 What is a ‘poor’ or unproductive soil? strongly acidic or alkaline conditions which inhibit the uptake of some nutrients and provide a chemical restriction to the root growth of sensitive plants. In addition to this, soil with inherently ‘good’ qualities can be degraded by poor management techniques.